Yesterday we saw how Solomon’s wealth (including wives) turned his heart from the Lord. Here’s the antidote:

Teach me how to make good decisions, and give me revelation-light, for I believe in your commands…The words you speak to me are worth more than all the riches and wealth in the whole world! (Psalm 119.66, 72, TPT)

If Solomon had stuck with God’s word instead of going astray, that would have been worth more than his wealth. Truly, the Word is greater than Wealth. (That’s what the > symbol in the title means: “greater than.”)

And when [the king] sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself in a book a copy of this law, approved by the Levitical priests. And it shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the LORD his God by keeping all the words of this law and these statutes, and doing them, that his heart may not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he may not turn aside from the commandment, either to the right hand or to the left, so that he may continue long in his kingdom, he and his children, in Israel. (Deuteronomy 17.18 – 20, ESV)